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In-Reply-To: <199706191002.DAA29358@flea.best.net> from Darren Reed at "Jun 19, 97 07:54:50 pm"
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:38:52 -0700 (PDT)
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From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
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Darren Reed writes:

> In some mail from Dima Ruban, sie said:
> > 
> > Hey guys!
> > 
> > Why do we call /etc/rc.local by: (thats from /etc/rc)
> > # Do traditional (but rather obsolete) rc.local file if it exists.
> > [ -f /etc/rc.local ] && sh /etc/rc.local
> >                        ^^^^
> > and not ". /etc/rc.local"?
> 
> does rc (sh) handle errors the same way with "sh xx" and ". xx" ?

It doesn't realy matter.
tick:/# tail -5 /etc/rc
# Do traditional (but rather obsolete) rc.local file if it exists.
[ -f /etc/rc.local ] && sh /etc/rc.local

date
exit 0
tick:/# 

Even if ". /etc/rc.local" will be abnormaly terminated we won't loose anything
but "date" command :-)

And one other thing. All rc.files that we have we run with "." and not with
"sh". All but /etc/rc.local.

> 
> 

-- dima